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...Work Technology and acoustical principles. How technical developments through history have affected the design of brass instruments. Changing Key and Pitch Playing the cornet, trombone and trumpet, experts demonstrate hand stopping and lipping. Mechanical Innovation : Keys The keyed bugle and the ophicleide enabled brass instruments to have a distinct voice in the band...

...work for them (see Patronage). Cosimo’s grandson, Lorenzo, continued this patronage, encouraging a great flourishing of art, music and poetry. Humanism Humanism was the great intellectual movement of the Renaissance. Humanists rediscovered Greek or Latin classics, believing them to contain the lessons individuals needed to lead a moral and purposeful life. From this...

...working in factories back home. Meanwhile, in New York City, immigrant workers from the British Isles were breaking into the printing industry. The textile industries of New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania relied heavily on them too, and both English and Scottish workers also prospered in metallurgical trades. But skills weren’t the only thing that the British...